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Vacuum and cryogenics

Vacuum and cryogenics

In search of the black swans

01 Apr 2009

The publish-or-perish ethic too often favours a narrow and conservative approach to scientific innovation. Mark Buchanan asks whether we are pushing revolutionary ideas to the margins.

The Black Swan
In 1890 an electricity company enticed the German physicist Max Planck to help it in its efforts to

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Mark Buchanan is a science writer based in the UK. His most recent book is The Social Atom (2007, Cyan Books).
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